Old Bill Williams Double Crosses the Nuche and Seals his Fate (Part 4) - or “A Hero’s Burial In Spite of Himself”

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Providentially delivered from ‘the valley of the shadow’ and straggling into Taos well after Colonel Fremont’s arrival on January 20 of 1849, the destitute survivors of the ordeal in the La Garita Mountains settled in to recuperate and recover from their ordeal to the best of their limited means. Already shamelessly foisting the responsibility for his failures on Old Bill Williams, Fremont had te…